I love books, I have thousands of them! One big problem for me has been in managing my book collection. Until recently there did not seem to be any efficient solutions for managing my e-book collection. I have played with all the usual solutions, but everything seemed overly complicated, difficult, or large. Nothing native to Linux, or to Gnome which is my window manager of choice. All I wanted was a simple browser for my books that would allow me to quickly find the one I was interested in reading so I could read it.

So looking over things I found Alexandria, a book manager for Gnome. It's a neat book manager with interesting features, however it lacks support for e-books. It also seems the author is developing a fork so can't be bothered to add support to the existing application. So I decided to put my ruby skills to the test and hack the application to add support for attaching files to books and it worked -- great!